Iron County register., 1887-02-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Era Life and we acknowledge the receipt O
the initial number.
st. Paul's church will soon be provided
with rector, or at least, the indication.
point that way at this writing.
Mr.. d. Myers has moved his family on tt
Jos. A. Reyburn's farm in Russellvile anC
will make his home there in the future.
Mrs. Joseph c. Whitman, of Denver, Colo.
with her little son, is now visiting her faith.
er-fn-Iaw, Jos. III. Whitman, of the Valley.
The monkeys are coming-all the way
from Buckman's Gallery, to ornament his
advertisement, which will appear next week.
Remember after the 1st of March the old
rates will be charged for pictures at Buck
mans Gallery. You have just five day left.
Hurry. Fly.
Several communications and parts of coin
munications are LAID over to next week.
They will ''keep" well, and suffer no detri-
ment from short delay.
Time changed. The time of Mrs. Burr's
lecture at the Presbyterian Churchis chang
ed from the 23d inst. to the 25th. All are
invited. Admission free.
MARRIED-On Tuesday, February 22d,
1887, in the Probate Judges office, Ironton,
Mo-, by Franz Dinger, j. p, Mr.. AGA G..
PRoPsT, of De Soto, Mo-, to Miss MAC GLE
A. WILSON, of Piedmont, Mo.
Rob't L. Moore, rosy complexioned and
red-headed gent, who has worked in the
Knob mine for the past year, took French
leave last Wednesday night, and is now a
resident of no. mans land.
The fourth section of 61S ran into the rear
end of the north bound local as she was
standing on the main track at M:ddlebrook
about ten O'Clock Monday night. We are not
advised as to the amount of damage result
ing.
The Seitz Merchandise Company, at Mid
dlebrook, haye just completed a large ice
house. 1t is substantially built, and, so far
as our knowledge goes, by all odds the most
expensive structure of the kind in this Sec
ton.
We learn that Dewitt Harvey, an old Iron
tonian, but for several years past located at
Bismarck and DeSoto in the employ of the
railroad company, has removed to Poplar
Blum and will enter into copartnership
with Thos. III. Moore in the merchantile bus
iness. A firm composed of two such men
as Tom and Dewitt is bound to meet with
success.
The total receipts of the Collectors office
for the month of January was $21 1,l31. This
speaks well for our collector, than whom
there is no better in the State, and it also re-
fleets credit on our people for the prompt
ness with which they meet this obligation.
In this respect Iron makes 4 much better
showing than many of her older and wealth.
ier Southeast neighbors.
John Butts returned to this place Monday
to pack his goods and household effects and
left for Williamsville, Mo-, where he will be
in the employ of III. n. Holiday. We are
sorry that our town has lost John and con-
gratulate the citizens of that place on the
acquisition of good, industrious and sober
man, worthy of their confidence and esteem.
--Frederickto,cn Standard.
This winter has seen more fogs and dense
fogs in the Valley that we have observed in
any one season during a residence of thirty
years. Monday evening at O'Clock the
heayens were clear and studded with stars
visible to the naked eye; at s, the atmos-
phere was so thick you could aim ost cut it
with knife, and lights from the windows
rested upon it as against stone wall.
We notice in the docket of the Supreme
Court, as published by the jefferson City
Tribune, that the case of II. +. HollJman VS..
st. L., l. NJ. & S. R'y will come up for ad-
judgment at the coming April term. This
suit is for damages for stock killed and was
instituted some three years since. The
plaintiff secured judgment in both of the
lower courts and he railroad cOmnany iS ha
appellant.
Thursdays Republican contained an ac-
count of the marriage of Mr.. Matt. Foster,
of Omaha, Neb., to Miss Maud Peters, of
Walnut Ridge, Ark. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. I. C. Tupper, of Leaven-
worth, Kansas. The bride was for many
years resident of this county and has hosts
of friends herein who trust that this life
union of hers may be exceptionally free from
sorrow and especially replete with happi-
ness.
very perceptible earthquake shock was
felt here ON last Thursday at 0:3O p. NJ. Not
being acquainted with earthquakes, and
there being no harm done, we concluded not
to say anything about it; but as our atten-
ton has been called thereto by several per-
sons of unimpeachable record for veracity,
we have concluded to tell the public that
there was an earthquake in Ironton at the
time above stated, and we heard the rattle
of the windows and felt the jar. "There
now."
On Tuesday afternoon, a two-year old
child of Constantine Kuhn's fell into spring
near the house. The little fellow must have
been in the water few minutes before he
was seen and pulled out by some of the other
children, for it took great deal of manipu-
lating to bring him to. Mr.. Sillinger, who
gave us the information, said that the doc
tor-who was summoned at once--was Of the
opinion that the little boy would come out
all right; but it was close shave. Mr..
Kuhn lives on Marble Creek, and is one of
our Understanding farmers: honest,
straightforward and an excellent neighbor.
In this issue will be found another article
on sold Times" and one, in our estimation,
the best of the many articles from the pen of
this writer. They have fascination for the
reader. In connection with interest in
perusing such, there is invariably MOURN
full, q sad feeling; feeling of loss and regret.
An unexplainable melancholy. The years
are past and gone. Those times can never
return. Where once the deer consorted are
now blooming gardens, where the lone wolf
howled his evening requiem, now furnaces
and factories increase the wealth of the world
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